The third weekend of April each year the Kings Mountain Fire Museum sponsors the Kings Mountain Firehouse BBQ Cookoff, which is recognized as a North Carolina State Championship event and adheres to all KCBS rules.

Previous Grand Champions:

2013 - Two Old Men and a Grill
2012 - Two Old Men and a Grill
2011 - Tar Heel Smokers
2010 - Taste of Carolina
2009 - GB's BBQ
2008 - Smokey Mountain Smokers
2007 - Courtney's Low Country BBQ
2006 - B.S. Pitmeisters
2005 - Checkered Pig
2004 - Hickory Knoll Cookers
2003 - Hickory Knoll Cookers
2002 - EB's BBQ
2001 - Smokin Stokes & Cheerwine